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October 11, 2008

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) confers with Finance Minister of Egypt and Chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee Youssef Boutros-Ghali (R) prior to the start of the International Monetary and Financial Committee’s meeting at IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on October 11, 2008. Boutros-Ghali is the first IMFC head from an emerging market and a developing country. IMF Staff Photographer/Michael Spilotro Larger | Larger / reproduction-quality version (628kb) U.S. President George W. Bush (C) talks in the Rose Garden after meeting with G7 finance ministers and heads of international finance institutions at the White House in Washington, October 11, 2008. Also pictured behind him are (L-R): Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi, IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Eurogroup Chairman Jean-Claude Juncker, Japan's Finance Minister Shoichi Nakagawa, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty, Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling, Italy's Economy Minister Giulio Tremonti, Germany's Finance Minster Peer Steinbrueck and World Bank President Robert Zoellick. International Monetary Fund Photograph/Stephen Jaffe Larger | Larger / reproduction-quality version (1232kb) Egyptian Finance Minister and International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) Chairman Youssef Bourtos-Ghali (2nd R), International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (C), IMF's First Deputy Managing Director John Lipsky (2nd L) and IMF Secretary Shailendra Anjaria (R) attend the meeting of the International Monetary and Financial Committee October 11, 2008 at IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. IMF Staff Photographer/Stephen Jaffe Larger | Larger / reproduction-quality version (831kb) International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn briefs journalists on the outcomes of the International Financial Monetary and Financial Committee meeting at IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. October 11, 2008. © IMF Staff Photographer/Eugene Salazar Larger | Larger / reproduction-quality version (318kb) Chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee and Minister of Finance of Egypt Youssef Boutros-Ghali during the International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC) press conference at IMF Headquarters in Washington, DC. October 11, 2008. © IMF Staff Photographer/Eugene Salazar Larger | Larger / reproduction-quality version (480kb) International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn (L) Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Department of Finance and a Director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Hamad al Suwaidi (M) and Finance Minister of Egypt and Chairman of the International Monetary and Financial Committee Youssef Boutros-Ghali (R) at a meeting with The International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IWG). The IWG today presented the Santiago Principles to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) policy-guiding International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), which met in Washington D.C. to consult about global economic developments and to take stock of the working group’s efforts. Finance Ministers, IWG representatives, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the European Commission, also took the opportunity to discuss the Principles and SWF issues in this separate meeting at IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on October 11, 2008 IMF Staff Photographer/Michael Spilotro Larger | Larger / reproduction-quality version (546kb) David Murray, Chairman of the Australian Future Fund and Chair of the The International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Fund's (IWG) Drafting Group, at a press conference following the IWG's presentation of the "Santiago Principles" to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) policy-guiding International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), which met at IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on October 11, 2008. IMF Staff Photographer/Michael Spilotro Larger | Larger / reproduction-quality version (558kb) Hamad al Suwaidi, Undersecretary of the Abu Dhabi Department of Finance and a Director of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, at a press conference after the International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds (IWG) today presented the "Santiago Principles" to the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) policy-guiding International Monetary and Financial Committee (IMFC), which met at IMF Headquarters in Washington, D.C. on October 11, 2008. Mr. al Suwaidi is co-chairman of the IWG. IMF Staff Photographer/Michael Spilotro Larger | Larger / reproduction-quality version (390kb)

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